Bengaluru: The Ministry of External Affairs has introduced ‘Out-of-turn Passports’ for normal first-time applicants, where the passport is delivered to the applicant first at no extra cost and the Police verification done later.
This was introduced not only to speed up the process of issuing passport, but also because the Ministry had received a feedback and complaints from citizens that Police verification is time consuming and leading to delay in issuance of passports. Another serious complaint was of the Police personnel demanding bribes.
